retro

Ninty Media has already scored one success with GameBook: The Unofficial DMG Companion, a guide to the original monochrome Game Boy, but it has now returned with a sequel – this time focused on the Game Boy Color. We were fortunate enough to be sent a copy of GameBook Color and we can confirm...

Namco's Ridge Racer is one of the most popular arcade racing games of all time. Not only did it show the arcade-going public just what was possible with texture-mapped 3D graphics, it also helped Sony launch the PS1 in 1994, becoming the console's earliest killer app. Like so many racing games...

We still see hilariously bad clone systems these days, but back in the '90s, the sheer volume of ropey imitations that flowed from the Far East was a sight to behold. There were countless Famicom / NES replications with often amusing names, all due to the fact that the internal hardware was...

Masahiro Sakurai's latest YouTube video has us looking at our measly game collections in shame as the legendary designer has given a full rundown of his storage solutions for just about every cartridge/disk size that you can think of. It should come as no surprise that this is a man with a...

And there you have it! The Strong Museum has just revealed that Resident Evil, Asteroids, Myst, Ultima, and SimCity are this year's Hall of Fame inductees. The announcement was made yesterday at the museum, which is located in Rochester, New York. In response to the news, some of the developers...

Arcade1Up, the leading producer of at-home retro arcade machines, is joining up with the household tasks website Taskrabbit to hopefully make it easier than ever to assemble the retro games room of your dreams. As part of this new partnership, Taskrabbit will offer a special service on its...

A new NES clone has appeared online which offers RGB and HDMI right out of the box. The 'Lava FC' is currently available on AliExpress for £240 and runs physical Famicom cartridges. It makes use of the open-source Lava RGB mod, and also offers S-Video and Composite support. HDMI output tops...

Retro handheld manufacturer Anbernic has revealed its first clamshell device: the Anbernic RG35XXSP. As the suffix indicates, this handheld's design is inspired by the GBA SP but it should be capable of playing more than just GBA games. While full specs of the device have yet to be revealed, the...

We're huge fans of point-and-click adventure games here at Time Extension, with Lucasfilm Games' Maniac Mansion ranking high on the list of our favourite games in the genre. So when we learned about Cronela's Mansion — an upcoming adventure game inspired by the classic 1987 graphic adventure —...

If you have an affinity for the late '80s and early-to-mid '90s anime aesthetic and retro first-person shooters, then, boy, do we have the game for you. Mullet Madjack is an upcoming Steam game from the Brazilian developer Hammer95 that is releasing later this month on May 15th and only...

The Fourth Generation of videogame consoles, comprising the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive primarily, had a strong number of censored content in several games, and even entire games and franchises that didn't even saw the light of day outside Japan. One...

DOOM is well-known for being ported to basically every device with some kind of input, and that list now includes the old retro game console in Persona 5 Royal. Modders KingJackSkellington and Xan1242 released the DOOMsona mod today, that lets you buy the shareware version of the original DOOM...

As the 1990s become more distant, nostalgia from retro games seems to hit even harder. One Fenix Down is a product of sentimentality from that era, as the indie developer emphasized its tribute to classic RPG games like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. One Fenix Down, a new upcoming turn-based...

I recently stumbled across a method on how to add games to the SNES Classic clone, in addition to a hidden menu. Hidden menu 1. Enter the Manual menu, the one with the QR code 2. Press X, followed by the Left key. (If Left key doesn't work, try the Left trigger?) Mounting to PC 1. Use a Micro...